Windows 10: Comparing Win10 installation to Win7?

Getting ready to clean install Win10 Pro 64-bit on a newly built desktop PC (with external USB DVD) using the downloaded ISO for the newest build. (I also have a purchased install disk and license, but not sure which build it is.) I've installed Win7 numerous times (on other machines), but never Win10. I've also never dealt with an SSD before. I've been reading through the installation threads here, but I haven't found a concise outline of the differences in installation procedures for Win7 and Win10. My goal is to get as bare-bones an installation as possible, with as little as possible of the telemetry and other invasive components of Win10. A couple of specific questions (in addition to the request for comparisons):

1. Any reason I can't use an SSD as a boot drive?

2. Are all four Win10 partitions required (Recovery, System, MSR, Primary)? Can I at least get by without the Recovery partition?

3. Any way to keep Win10 (or the license) from irrevocably locking itself to that specific hardware?

4. Any other "gotchas" I need to be aware of?

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Slow boot on Win10 compared to Win7

Same for me. Windows is downloading and installing updates by the hour!
The slow boot times (and shut down times) will get less and less as time goes on.

You might want to also look at the Start Up list in Task manager and disable some of the rogue elements hiding in there!





Right click Start.
Click Task Manager.
Click the Startup tab.

 

Slow boot on Win10 compared to Win7


theveterans you gave me a tip: so I go lookup the diags/boot/events and look at this mess:







whew... where do I start? with the RED ones, of course. First up is Cryptographic services - not exactly the kind of thing one would want to force "disable"...

 

homegroup win10 not recognize printer & scanner on win7 computer

Thank you so much for the quick response to my problem.

my devices I am trying to access on the win7 computer are:

Printer: Stylus Photo R200

Scanner: Perfection 4180

I had these originally on my computer B4 win10 install. After the install they did not work. That is why I connected to my other win7 computer. The win7 is within my Homegroup and when I access thru win10 I get access to docs, picts, videos, etc but not
the above devices. Reversing this, accessing my win10 computer from the win7, I get the icon my Epson Workforce 310 printer which I set up on the win7 computer for printing as well as the above devices.

Went to Epson website on the win7 comp & found the recommended driver for win7. Did the same on the win10 comp to find drivers for win10. (Did not update these drivers yet.) Apparently they have 2 different drivers dependent on WIN version. Both drivers
are up to date.

Is it possible the drivers are not compatible and this accounts for these devices not showing up on the win10 machine? Don't know if win10 driver will work on win7. I may try to set these up on win10 machine. If work can upgrade win7 to win10.

I tried steps 1 & 2. Step 3, I know I have devices set to show on the network.

Any other suggestions/comments??